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Why do entrepreneurs quit comfortable jobs, and take the risk of doing something new, something that may even seem like a gamble? Entrepreneur Shweta Tiwary of Chungi shares her inspiration.
Shweta Tiwary had a comfortable, interesting, well-paying job as an Art Director. Yet, every time she visited her home town, she felt unsettled on seeing the plight of artisans and craftspeople – especially women who hailed from communities that were traditionally rich in such skills, but had little access to modern markets and paying consumers.
Every business owner needs that little jolt which sets her on the path to entrepreneurship, and in Shweta’s case, it was the realisation that she could not continue with her current role if she was serious about doing anything with art and artisans.
Besides, as an Art Director, she had a natural as well as trained eye for what would really help traditional art go to a wider market in the form of usable products.
And so was born – Chungi, an online store that would bring these products to users.
The store has a range of interesting product, all based on Indian crafts, especially in the home decor and apparel space. As this market is heating up with a number of new entrants, besides the big daddies of the e-commerce space, it will definitely be interesting to watch how each business goes about grabbing a slice of the pie for itself.
As for those of us who live Indian art and handicrafts, we can only be delighted at the wider choices opening up to us!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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